How serious the situation is, most people do not notice, because all their food gets trucked in. The day will come, where no trucks will come anymore.

Hear hear!
But there are still few of us (more than few i hope) who will do their best to change this towards creating a healthy environment. I have found that most people desire the change but arent ready to face this huge issue. They need those who inspire, those who under no circumstance give up or loose hope.

As soon as we buy our small farm in Denmark i will begin the project of returning the earth back to health. At first it will be an Oasis for all insects in my area. It will then through my activism inspire others who resonate with this. It will inspire those whosminds are not totally lost in the labiryths of greed (profit above life).

I refuse to think that most of us are heartless. I will not rest until my local commune/county realise that change must come swift. Once that is achieved the government cant ignore the facts that change is possible and desired by the people and all forms of life.

And we dont need to wait for governments for a change. All we need is a compassionate community which can do it together.
Screw the government! I will send them a message that we dont need them.

I thought before that one needs lots of money to grow bee friendly flowers but this year I have learned from the bees that this isnt true
My ladies showed me what wild flowers they prefer and I have been collecting those seeds until now. It is amazing how many seeds come from only one flower.

We need each other to make this happen. If alone one can only feel despair.

You are right. Both ways are bad in my opinion. There is no way we can find a sustainable solution with 97% of population relying for food from 3% farmers. There is no way they can produce food without damaging the eco-system.

We must support those who are willing to run small scale organic farms based on biodiverse agriculture. We myst start buying and eating local food. We must get the system and self-reliance in balance.
Simply, we need at least 30% of population to start farming in such sustainable way.

Once I get my farm running I will try to get at least 3-4 local families who are to buy food from us. Their kids will learn where the food comes from by picking it with their own hands. They will see bees pollinating those plants they eat.

We humans have a very gentle heart which is covered in our own mind garbage. That heart does resonate well with this idea but only reading books about it does not help. We must come in contact with very nature to become aware of this resonating heart we have.

Once we actually touch life with this heart of ours the healing tears will fall and the thought "how could I be so greedy and non-compassionate? I will be the change to light up the darkness!"will come up.

We can pull this off

... Together!

Last edited by Che Guebuddha on Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi Luc,
Regarding your questions you can read a lot about this on our homepage. In general we will say that everything that is not good for the bees is not god for the bacterias, as bad food, bad enviroment etc.
As it is today you can buy Symbeeotic within EU on internet at our homepage www.apicellae.se
Best regards
Kent Lörd

Not a lot, but I suppose it's all on their website... Lots to read.
I ordered 2 packages (for 6 hives) to give it a try.

They are already used in agriculture:
Stratiolaelaps are used primarily to control young larvae of fungus gnats in the soil or planting media. They also help control soil stages of thrips and may account for up to 30% of thrips control. They do not control shore flies or moth flies, but will feed on other soil organisms, such as springtails and root mealybugs. They have been used successfully in bedding and potted plant production, seedling and cutting propagation, and poinsettia stock. Stratiolaelaps adapt well to the various growth media and capillary mats used in plant production, but do not survive freezing of flooding conditions.
More here: http://www.evergreengrowers.com/stratiolaelaps-scimitus-womersley-hypoaspis.html

Conserving wild bees

Research suggests that bumble bee boxes have a very low success rate in actually attracting bees into them. We find that if you create an environment where first of all you can attract mice inside, such as a pile of stones, a drystone wall, paving slabs with intentionally made cavities underneath, this will increase the success rate.

Most bumble bee species need a dry space about the size a football, with a narrow entrance tunnel approximately 2cm in diameter and 20 cm long. Most species nest underground along the base of a linear feature such as a hedge or wall. Sites need to be sheltered and out of direct sunlight.